Webpack 2: How to exclude all node_modules except for

Question

I need to have babel run on /node_modules/identicons/ However I still want to exclude all other packages.

Reason is the identicons package

Answer 1

Exclude whole node_modules folder, except required module:

{
  test: /\.js$/,
  exclude: /node_modules\/(?!identicons\/).*/,
}

https://github.com/webpack/webpack/issues/2031#issuecomment-219040479